My very first take upon arrival when we bought a place in Montana was shit I’m high everyone’s staring at me in disapproval, i felt so far from home when we were shopping for a place I almost didn’t buy, I actually did get some smart remarks here and there, nose turns etc
but it hasn’t been hard to meet fellow pot heads to chill with, especially in gallatin, Bozeman etc too ritzy
No.QuarterThe location of my apartment is just downright depressing, I'm too fucking young to live in this suburban hellscape surrounded by new Volvos and F150s, and people who give me dirty looks for smokin a joint while birdwatching at the pond. But I have a garage and it's pet friendly and if I were to want to move back closer to downtown and campus I either would be looking at a pretty significant rent increase, some intense competition, and very slim pickings for something that allows pets.
I don't know if I like Bozeman anymore in general, one of the only things keeping me here is Bridger Bowl. The mountain biking is kinda meh, the restaurant options suck, smoke season is long, cost of housing is skyrocketing, people aren't as nice as when I moved here, all of my friends have moved away, covid has made me even more socially inept, and the job market is shitty enough for me to hold on to a job that is crushing my mental heath. I dunno if I'm just bored or burnt out or what, but all of the downsides are compounding and it's getting harder for Bridger Bowl to be enough justification to keep living here. I realllly reeeeaaallly don't want to move back to Denver, but at least I have friends there and the job market is better and I could eat good Mexican food on the reg, and maybe could live with my parents for a lil bit to save some money until I can findmy own place to live.
My partner's sister is coming here for school this coming fall, and I'm honestly not feeling great about it. It's obviously not my place to say, but she is going to be paying out of state tuition, has zero money saved up, hasn't had a job for more than a few weeks I think, and I honestly think she picked MSU mostly because my partner lives here and shes feeling the pressure as an 18 year old kid to jump right from high school to a university. I tried to explain to my partner that her sister can't gain residency while being a full time student or having more than 51% income support and she didn't believe me. I know this is probably selfish to say, but I've got so many bad feelings about the whole situation and I feel like it's just going to implode and my partner and myself are going to be in the splash zone and doing cleanup, I don't wanna have to deal with that noise.
I just don't know what the fuck to do.
